swede

See also: Swede

English

From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.

swede (plural swedes)

(chiefly British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
The plant from which this is obtained.
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
(UK, slang) The head.
- 2005, The Spectator, volume 299, page 49:
  Gotta be so careful nowadays; local copper's no problem but the cow from the council done me 'cos this almost brained a punter when it fell on his swede.

(plant): rutabaga (US, Canada)
(vegetable): rutabaga (US, Canada), neep (Scotland), yellow turnip (US), winter turnip

yellow root of Brassica napus — see rutabaga

plant — see rutabaga

turnip — see turnip

slang: head

Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden.

swede (third-person singular simple present swedes, present participle sweding, simple past and past participle sweded)

To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques.
- 2008, “The Five Most Awesomely Sweded Movies”, in Esquire:
  Chances are you've sweded something before without even knowing it.
- 2014, The Guardian, Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it?‎^[1]:
  Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and John Rambo are this era's King Arthur, Beowulf and Robin Hood – and sweding represents a playful and heartfelt engagement with their myths.